Rock Source Music Facts Day by Day


May 21 1904	Thomas Wright Waller is born in New York City, USA. He will grow up to be better known as Fats Waller, big band leader and composer of such standards as Ain't Misbehavin' and Honeysuckle Rose. (1904)
May 21 1925	The Benson Orchestra Of Chicago records Because Of You the World Is Mine for Victor Records in Camden, New Jersey, USA. (1925)
May 21 1937	Steel guitar player Alvino Rey, credited as the first man to amplify a guitar by means of electricity, marries Louise King in the USA. (1937)
May 21 1940	Gene Krupa and his Orchestra record No Name Jive, When The Swallows Come Back To Capistrano and other tracks for Columbia Records in New York City. (1940)
May 21 1940	Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra, with vocalist Frank Sinatra, begin a fourteen?week engagement at the Astor Hotel, New York City. (1940)
May 21 1941	Memphis Minnie records Me And My Chauffeur Blues in Chicago, Illinois. (1941)
May 21 1943	The Ina Ray Hutton Orchestra plays in Fort Knox, Kentucky, USA. The concert is broadcast on The Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands, a fifteen minute radio series on the ABC Network in the USA, sponsored by Coca Cola. (1943)
May 21 1947	Xavier Cugat plays at Ciro's, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. (1947)
May 21 1947	Innovative and controversial jazz/boogie-woogie singer and songwriter Harry 'The Hipster' Gibson is featured on the cover of Downbeat magazine in the USA. (1991)
May 21 1950	Griff Williams And His Orchestra play the first of 28 nights at The Trianon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, USA. (1950)
May 21 1950	Jimmy Palmer And His Orchestra play the first night of four weeks at The Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, USA. (1950)
May 21 1950	Ruby Braff's Six, Edmond Hall, Frankie Newton, Nat Pierce and Mariano's Boptet play in the Jazz Festival on the Parkman Bandstand, Boston Common, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. (1950)
May 21 1950	Jazz great Charlie 'Bird' Parker plays at Birdland, New York City, USA. Also on the bill on this night is heroin-addicted trumpet virtuoso Fats Navarro, but this will prove to be his last public performance. Within two months Navarro will be dead. (1950)
May 21 1950	Louis Jordan And His Orchestra play the third night of a week at The Paramount Theatre, Detroit, Michigan, USA. (1950)
May 21 1950	Tex Beneke And His Orchestra play the seventh night of four weeks at The Cafe Rouge in The Hotel Statler, New York City, USA. (1950)
May 21 1950	George Evans and his 20 Piece Orchestra play at The South Parade Pier, Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK. (1950)
May 21 1953	The Oscar Peterson Trio records I'm Glad There Is You, I Hear Music, Polka Dots And Moonbeams, One For My Baby, Autumn In New York, I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Spring Is Here and The Things We Did Last Summer for Verve Records in New York City, USA. Guitarist on the session is Barney Kessel. (1953)
May 21 1953	The Charlie Parker Quintet opens at Birdland, New York City, USA. (1953)
May 21 1955	Tito Burns And His Band play at The Festival Hall, Kirkby In Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, UK. (1955)
May 21 1962	Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers begin a two-week season at McKie's Disc Jockey Lounge, Chicago, Illinois, USA. (1962)
May 21 1963	The Guy Lombardo Orchestra plays at The Port-O-Call Resort, Tierra Verde, Florida, USA. (1963)
May 21 1966	The Ramsey Lewis Trio enters the UK Albums Chart with Hang On Ramsey!, which will peak at No20 during a four-week stay on the chart. (1966)
May 21 1972	Syd Lawrence And His Orchestra play at The Wyvern, Swindon, Wiltshire, UK. (1972)
May 21 1972	Jazz-rock fusion band The Mahavishnu Orchestra plays at The Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA. (1972)
May 21 1982	Tito Puente plays at Keystone Korner, San Francisco, California, USA, during a thirteen-night season. (1982)
May 21 2007	Beatlejazz, a group specialising in jazz interpretations of The Beatles songs, release the album, All You Need, featuring guest appearances by Toots Thielemans [harmonica], Richard Bona [bass and vocals] and Joe Lovano [saxophone]. (2007)